# Ship logs from appliances in form of syslog

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ship-logs-from-appliances-in-form-of-syslog/48509>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [April 27, 2016, 6:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ship-logs-from-appliances-in-form-of-syslog/48509 "2016-04-27T06:58:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![thyfere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@thyfere](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thyfere)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 6:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ship-logs-from-appliances-in-form-of-syslog/48509/1 "2016-04-27T06:58:21Z")

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Hi,

I am running ELK stack on a Windows box. We got a couple of load balancers appliances and they have the option to export logs in syslog format.

How can I configure my Elasticsearch or Logstash to receive them? Do I need filters too? Please, suggest the configuration settings.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 7:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ship-logs-from-appliances-in-form-of-syslog/48509/2 "2016-04-27T07:45:25Z")

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You can use the syslog input for that - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-syslog.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-syslog.html)

As for filters, that's hard to say without more info.

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**Author:** ![thyfere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@thyfere](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thyfere)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 7:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ship-logs-from-appliances-in-form-of-syslog/48509/3 "2016-04-27T07:48:34Z")

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Thanks Warkolm,

What if I want to tag the incoming syslog data on specific port?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ship-logs-from-appliances-in-form-of-syslog/48509/4 "2016-04-27T08:53:54Z")

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Use the `add_fields` directive.

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ship-logs-from-appliances-in-form-of-syslog/48509/5 "2016-04-28T19:21:32Z")

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See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/config-examples.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/config-examples.html).

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 5:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ship-logs-from-appliances-in-form-of-syslog/48509/6 "2017-07-06T05:00:05Z")

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